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ED DAVIS - A Phantom Bandit? NURSED | ¢. ;BECAUSE HE IS NOW— : BLIND, % eh Ay. on One Eye a Pome wea TS ‘By His Pals ae “? ver a . “ Pat Davis, Btephens ¢ county phentarn ban? ‘out those eyes he cannot resort to a bank js taking the last greet - probbery ry to obtain the money necessary to get wowly, and with no chance J ‘gecape, Un. ~aetention that would ease the last few weeks Duncan: Banner learned ls te ypsterday” ag of his ilfe. . Wncelient | & thority. ee Petty crime 1s also “out.” Ble face is too is ‘in the grip of a for he ” dapat? pasy to recognize. Officers everywhere have ht Marre machine gun, his eu _ §t indelibly stamped upon their minds. tols, and the other implements of his ca Davis is probably the most easy to identify: ry. are of no avell, It int + oe o ‘of alt the bandits who have occupled the ebooting bis way out—not any mare oi4 ns Jott erie spotlight during the past decade. . CA disease of long ‘tanding has >, ils squint’ eyes, set clase together, bis tong" ‘roads upon his health tha Ynose'and cruel mouth eet him aside from - tine ee A ens age other men. Fo see him ts ta recognize bim, the m * gifice: Davis ts dying in ghack 3 baa ti most. Tronically, -H he Pulls a “job.” he must be ready to ‘pot fear from the place where ‘firat: ~get away quickly. He must have pals who known murder, the ailsying of J. f eri. will whisk him swiftly from the scene of his. Mariow, occurred, ending bis life of a where it officially started. | ee "gnose pals aren't the type to work with : reer aa Oe en caters slipping bandit. They'll take care of him, if He faces death in darkness... He can’t oe. they can, but they won't help him pull a job... the bandit pals, who, true bo the code of the The risk is too great for them. umderwarld, are nureing him in his last is: * : Melther will they share toot they obtain The disease has alrebdy cost him the-t ‘et | . themselves. The law of the underworld won't bat one eye and the other da dimmed. > permit it. A bandit must be “in” on a job if ‘Be. can't have expert mex modica] ald. Wilts - he ds to share in she Ulicit profits. “HARDLY YING” HOF Disease , ’ Davis souidn’ t live with even ‘the best c medical attention. He is paying the haz way for his life of banditry and carousal. A slow, sertain death, inevitable, is at t end of that long drama which reached {i antl-climas when hé killed a Marlow offic: and was sent to the “big house” at McAijest: for life—and reached its climax. when, afi escaminy from the Oxiaboma pen, he “we! ‘in Kangas atid then participated in th Memorial Dey break from Lansing last yea in that hardy crew were such men as Wi: bur Underhill, who died at McAlester of bu jet wounds received from officers at Ghav nee, Bob Brady and others. - aot * fact Brady is now at large, aft: bresking from the same prison, is tron ’ Brady was recaptured in New Mexico sever; months ago and taken back to prison. Day: ‘remained et large. Now, Deyis is aying sn “Brady is again out. In the case of Davis, Alsease.is accomplist: gng an end sought truitlessiy by officers { almost a year. His approaching qeatb leaves officers fre to nat run dopn Brady and othera who hav again Jeaped into the crime spotlight. . - a a a